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VC firm Insight Partners says thousands of staff and limited partners had personal data stolen in a ransomware attack

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-09-20 07:05:07

Venture capital firm Insight Partners has notified thousands of people, including the firm’s limited partners, that their personal information was stolen by hackers in an earlier data breach. In a statement on September 4, the VC giant said it completed its review earlier in August following its data breach, which it described as a “social engineering attack” without further explanation. The venture firm has now said in a formal data breach notification filed with California’s attorney general

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Company that owns Gucci, Balenciaga, other brands confirms hack

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-09-23 23:03:09

In Brief Kering confirmed a data breach affecting customers of its luxury brands Gucci, Balenciaga, Alexander McQueen, Yves Saint Lauren, and others, on Monday. Hackers stole sensitive customer data such as names, email addresses, phone numbers, home addresses, and the total amount of money they spent in stores all over the world. The BBC first reported the breach. Kering said the hackers did not steal credit card numbers and that it has contacted the customers whose data is part of the breac

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FinWise insider breach impacts 689K American First Finance customers

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-24 07:18:10

FinWise Bank is warning on behalf of corporate customers that it suffered a data breach after a former employee accessed sensitive files after the end of their employment. "On May 31, 2024, FinWise experienced a data security incident involving a former employee who accessed FinWise data after the end of their employment," reads a data breach notification sent by FinWise on behalf of American First Finance (AFF). American First Finance (AFF) is a company that offers consumer financing products

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More Than 4.4 Million Exposed in Credit Bureau TransUnion Breach: What to Know

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-02 07:58:00

The TransUnion data breach exposed the data of up to 4.4 million customers. CNET Sensitive personal information belonging to 4.4 million customers, including their names and Social Security numbers, was exposed in a data breach on credit bureau TransUnion, in what is believed to be the latest in a string of attacks targeting companies' Salesforce databases. The data breach, which occurred on July 28, was identified and contained within hours, a TransUnion spokesperson told CNET. TransUnion is

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Plex tells users to change their passwords after data breach

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-03 19:26:35

The Plex streaming platform has experienced a security breach and is telling customers to change their passwords "immediately." They also suggest that users enable two-factor authentication and sign out of any connected devices that are currently logged in. The company says a database was accessed by an “an unauthorized third party” and that some customers had their emails, usernames and hashed passwords exposed. As indicated, the breach involved hashed passwords, which are scrambled through an

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Plex urges users to change passwords after data breach

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-10-04 03:47:22

Streaming giant Plex is urging its customers to change their passwords after it disclosed a data breach of one of its user databases. The company said in a post on Monday that it was aware of a security incident involving the theft of Plex customer account information, including user names, email addresses, scrambled passwords, and unspecified authentication data. Plex said while the passwords were scrambled in a way that made them unreadable to humans, it’s unclear if the passwords can be dec

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Plex tells users to reset passwords after new data breach

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-04 16:03:02

Media streaming platform Plex is warning customers to reset passwords after suffering a data breach in which a hacker was able to steal customer authentication data from one of its databases. In a data breach notification seen by BleepingComputer, Plex says the stolen data includes email addresses, usernames, securely hashed passwords, and authentication data. "An unauthorized third party accessed a limited subset of customer data from one of our databases," reads the Plex data breach notifica

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Financial services firm Wealthsimple discloses data breach

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-08 03:36:48

Wealthsimple, a leading Canadian online investment management service, has disclosed a data breach after attackers stole the personal data of an undisclosed number of customers in a recent incident. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Toronto, the financial services firm holds over CAD$84.5 billion in assets (approximately $61 billion). It offers a wide range of financial products targeting investments, trading, cryptocurrency, tax filing, spending, and savings to over 3 million Canadians. We

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More Than 4.4 Million Exposed in Credit Bureau TransUnion Breach

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-09 23:15:00

The TransUnion data breach exposed the data of up to 4.4 million customers. CNET Sensitive personal information belonging to 4.4 million customers, including names and Social Security numbers, was exposed in a data breach on credit bureau TransUnion, in what is believed to be the latest in a string of attacks targeting companies' Salesforce databases. The data breach, which occurred on July 28, was identified and contained within hours, a TransUnion spokesperson told CNET. TransUnion is one of

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Google says Gmail security is “strong and effective” as it denies major breach

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-14 15:39:44

The sky is falling, and Gmail has supposedly been hacked to bits by malicious parties unknown. Or has it? Reports circulated last week claiming that Gmail was the subject of a major data breach, citing a series of warnings Google has distributed and increasing reports of phishing attacks. The hysteria was short-lived, though. In a brief post on its official blog, Google says that Gmail's security is "strong and effective," and reports to the contrary are mistaken. This story seems to have devel

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Credit Bureau TransUnion Hit With Data Breach Affecting 4.4 Million People

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-20 14:29:00

The TransUnion data breach exposed the data of up to 4.4 million customers. CNET Major credit bureau TransUnion has suffered a data breach that exposed sensitive information belonging to 4.4 million customers, including names and Social Security numbers. The data breach took place on July 28, meaning the sensitive information could have been sold and distributed throughout the dark web already. TransUnion is notifying people who may have been affected that their information could be exposed an

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MATLAB dev says ransomware gang stole data of 10,000 people

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-21 19:00:06

MathWorks, a leading developer of mathematical simulation and computing software, revealed that a ransomware gang stole the data of over 10,000 people after breaching its network in April. The company disclosed the attack on May 27, when it linked ongoing service outages to a ransomware incident that disrupted access to some internal systems and online applications for its staff and customers. Impacted services included multi-factor authentication (MFA), account SSO (Single Sign-On), the MathW

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TransUnion suffers data breach impacting over 4.4 million people

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-21 23:10:34

Consumer credit reporting giant TransUnion warns it suffered a data breach exposing the personal information of over 4.4 million people in the United States. TransUnion is one of the three major credit bureaus in the United States, alongside Equifax and Experian. It operates in 30 countries, employs 13,000 staff, and has an annual revenue of $3 billion. It collects and maintains credit information on over 1 billion consumers worldwide, with approximately 200 million of those based in the U.S.

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TransUnion says hackers stole 4.4 million customers’ personal information

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-10-22 07:04:57

Credit reporting giant TransUnion has disclosed a data breach affecting more than 4.4 million customers’ personal information. In a filing with Maine’s attorney general’s office on Thursday, TransUnion attributed the July 28 breach to unauthorized access of a third-party application storing customers’ personal data for its U.S. consumer support operations. TransUnion claimed “no credit information was accessed,” but provided no immediate evidence for its claim. The data breach notice did not s

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1.1M insurance customers were exposed in a data breach - here's what to know

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-10-25 06:48:43

JuSun/iStock / Getty Images Plus via Getty Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Farmers Insurance suffered a major data breach. More than 1 million customers were affected. Affected customers are receiving free credit monitoring. If you're a Farmers Insurance customer, you're going to want to pay attention -- and probably keep an eye on all of your important accounts. According to a notice on the Farmers website, about 1.1 million customers had sensi

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Farmers Insurance data breach impacts 1.1M people after Salesforce attack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-27 22:48:51

U.S. insurance giant Farmers Insurance has disclosed a data breach impacting 1.1 million customers, with BleepingComputer learning that the data was stolen in the widespread Salesforce attacks. Farmers Insurance is a U.S.-based insurer that provides auto, home, life, and business insurance products. It operates through a network of agents and subsidiaries, serving more than 10 million households nationwide. The company disclosed the data breach in an advisory on its website, saying that its da

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Orange Belgium discloses data breach impacting 850,000 customers

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-02 23:07:11

Orange Belgium, a subsidiary of telecommunications giant Orange Group, disclosed on Wednesday that attackers who breached its systems in July have stolen the data of approximately 850,000 customers. Orange Belgium provides fixed and mobile connectivity services to over 3 million customers in Belgium and Luxembourg, employs 1,500 staff, and claims to operate the largest 4G/5G network in the country. Last year, the company reported total service revenues of €1.34 billion. When BleepingComputer r

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Allianz Life data breach affects 1.1 million customers

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-11-08 21:26:54

The July data breach at U.S. insurance giant Allianz Life allowed hackers to steal the personal information of 1.1 million customers, according to data breach notification site Have I Been Pwned. Allianz Life disclosed the data breach in late July, confirming that hackers stole the personal information of the “majority” of its 1.4 million customers and its employees from a cloud-stored customer relationship database. Allianz has so far refused to confirm exactly how many people are affected by

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HR Giant Workday Got Hacked

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-11-09 11:25:40

Workday, a company that provides human resources technology to over 11,000 corporations and 70 million users worldwide, announced in a classic Friday news dump that it suffered a data breach. The company did not disclose how much information was stolen by the hackers, but did reveal that information—including the names, email addresses, and phone numbers—of some users was compromised. The company said the breach hit some of its third-party customer relationship databases. If any other data was

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HR giant Workday says hackers stole personal data in recent breach

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-11-10 16:04:10

Workday, one of the largest providers of human resources technology, has confirmed a data breach that allowed hackers to steal personal information from one of its third-party customer relationship databases. In a blog post published late Friday, the HR technology giant said the hackers stole an unspecified amount of personal information from the database, which Workday said was primarily used to store contact information, such as names, email addresses, and phone numbers. Workday did not expl

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The First Federal Cybersecurity Disaster of Trump 2.0 Has Arrived

wired.com Lily Hay Newman 2025-11-14 17:20:00

The second Trump administration has its first federal cybersecurity debacle to deal with. A breach of the United States federal judiciary’s electronic case filing system, discovered around July 4, has pushed some courts onto backup paper-filing plans after the hack compromised sealed court records and possibly exposed the identities of confidential informants and cooperating witnesses across multiple US states. More than a month after the discovery of the breach—and in spite of recent reports

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Were you an AT&T customer in 2024? You might be owed up to $5,000

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-23 10:10:38

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR AT&T will pay $177 million to settle claims over two major 2024 data breaches. Impacted customers can claim up to $5,000 for documented losses, depending on the breach. Claims must be filed by November 18. If you were an AT&T customer caught up in one or both of the carrier’s big 2024 data breaches, you could be eligible for a cash payout. In some cases, it might be thousands of dollars. As detailed by Top Class Actions, AT&T has agreed to a $177 mi

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Hacker used a voice phishing attack to steal Cisco customers’ personal information

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-12-04 10:03:03

A cybercriminal tricked a Cisco representative into granting them access to steal the personal information of Cisco.com users, the company said on Tuesday. Cisco said it discovered the breach on July 24, blaming the incident on a voice phishing or “vishing” call. The hackers accessed and exported “a subset of basic profile information” from the database of a third-party cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) system, according to the company’s disclosure. Cisco said that the stolen

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Pi-hole discloses data breach triggered by WordPress plugin flaw

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-09 10:13:01

Pi-hole, a popular network-level ad-blocker, has disclosed that donor names and email addresses were exposed through a security vulnerability in the GiveWP WordPress donation plugin. Pi-hole acts as a DNS sinkhole, filtering out unwanted content before it reaches the users' devices. While initially designed to run on Raspberry Pi single-board computers, it now supports various Linux systems on dedicated hardware or virtual machines. The organization stated that they first learned of the incide

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Shadow AI adds $670K to breach costs while 97% of enterprises skip basic access controls, IBM reports

venturebeat.com Louis Columbus 2025-12-14 00:23:49

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Shadow AI is the $670,000 problem most organizations don’t even know they have. IBM’s 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report, released today in partnership with the Ponemon Institute, reveals that breaches involving employees’ unauthorized use of AI tools cost organizations an average of $4.63 million. That’s nearly 16% more than the global ave

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The Tea App Data Breach: What Was Exposed and What We Know About the Class Action Lawsuit

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-16 04:12:00

Tea, a women's dating safety app that recently surged to the top of the free iOS App Store listings, suffered a major security breach last week. The company confirmed Friday that it "identified authorized access to one of our systems" that exposed thousands of user images. And now we know that DMs were accessed during the breach, too. Tea's preliminary findings from the end of last week showed the data breach exposed approximately 72,000 images: 13,000 images of selfies and photo identification

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The Tea App Data Breach: What Was Exposed and What to Know About the Class Action Lawsuit

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-16 08:44:05

Tea, a women's dating safety app that recently surged to the top of the free iOS App Store listings, suffered a major security breach last week. The company confirmed Friday that it "identified authorized access to one of our systems" that exposed thousands of user images. And now we know that DMs were accessed during the breach, too. Tea's preliminary findings from the end of last week showed the data breach exposed approximately 72,000 images: 13,000 images of selfies and photo identification

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The Tea App Data Breach: What Happened, and What Was Exposed

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-17 09:20:36

Tea, a women's safety dating app that surged to the top of the free iOS App Store listings, suffered a major security breach last week. The company confirmed Friday that it "identified authorized access to one of our systems" that exposed thousands of user images. And now we know that DMs were accessed during the breach, too. Tea's preliminary findings from the end of last week showed the data breach exposed approximately 72,000 images: 13,000 images of selfies and photo identification that peo

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Phishing Email Alert

computer.org Jennifer Salazar 2025-12-22 00:33:17

We are aware of recent phishing emails impersonating Hironori Washizaki from a Gmail address. These messages are fraudulent and were not sent by the IEEE Computer Society. No internal systems have been breached. If you receive such an email, please delete it and do not respond. For questions or to report similar messages, contact [email protected]. Thank you for your attention in this matter.

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Tea App Breach Exposes 72,000 Selfies, ID Photos and Other User Images

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-22 14:35:46

Tea, a women's safety dating app that surged to the top of the free iOS App Store listings this week, has been the subject of a major security breach. The company confirmed Friday that it has "identified authorized access to one of our systems" that exposed thousands of user images. According to Tea's preliminary findings, the breach allowed access to approximately 72,000 images, broken down into two groups: 13,000 images of selfies and photo identification that people had submitted during acco

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VC firm Insight Partners says thousands of staff and limited partners had personal data stolen in a ransomware attack

Company that owns Gucci, Balenciaga, other brands confirms hack

FinWise insider breach impacts 689K American First Finance customers

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Plex urges users to change passwords after data breach

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TransUnion says hackers stole 4.4 million customers’ personal information

1.1M insurance customers were exposed in a data breach - here's what to know

Farmers Insurance data breach impacts 1.1M people after Salesforce attack

Orange Belgium discloses data breach impacting 850,000 customers

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HR Giant Workday Got Hacked

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The Tea App Data Breach: What Was Exposed and What We Know About the Class Action Lawsuit

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The Tea App Data Breach: What Happened, and What Was Exposed

Phishing Email Alert

Tea App Breach Exposes 72,000 Selfies, ID Photos and Other User Images

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